Volume 5: Kyoto Summer Campaign Chapter 269: Senior Sister "Buddha Enemy" VS Junior Brother "Executioner" (Part 1)
After listening to the self-introduction of the owner of the gourd house, Kinoshita Rin, Ogata couldn't help but look Kinoshita Rin up and down several times with his complicated eyes.
"...Mamiya...Why is your lord a woman..."
"Oh? So the famous executioner Ittosai is the kind of person who discriminates against women and thinks that women are not qualified to wield swords or to command others?"
Lin's tone was clearly filled with displeasure.
The atmosphere around them suddenly became tense as Lin said this.
After realizing that he might have caused Lin to misunderstand him, Ogata quickly said:
"No, I'm not discriminating against women. I was just simply surprised that it didn't match my expectations."
"I always thought that the owner of the gourd house who could control the four people in the Mamiya was a big and strong man..."
"I never said that our lord is a man." Mamiya responded in a half-joking tone.
Lin directed her gaze, which was filled with a hint of curiosity, at Ogata.
"I just heard from Jiulang and Yahachi about the series of things that happened when they arrived at Chou Island, and... about you."
"What a surprise."
"I never thought that there is someone in this world who can comprehend the Selfless Two-Sword Style with the help of Grandpa's broken secret book."
Ogata had heard Mamiya and the others introduce the relationship between their lord and Kinoshita Genichi.
Genichi Kinoshita is the older brother of Lin's grandfather.
Therefore, the great-grandfather that Lin mentioned just now was naturally referring to Genichirō Kinoshita.
"It's a pity that Uncle Gong is sleeping now and can't come to see you, his 'disciple' whom he has never met before."
"When I returned to the Gourd House after finishing my training an hour ago and learned from Jiulang that I had a new junior fellow apprentice, I really felt like I had learned that my father had an illegitimate son and that I had a half-brother."
Ogata couldn't help but smile when he heard Lin's inexplicably funny analogy.
Ogata didn't expect that Kinoshita Rin, who exuded a cold aura, would actually say something so funny.
After looking at Ogata several times again, Lin suddenly changed her tone to an extremely serious one:
"Although from a certain perspective, you are my junior apprentice, but I don't want to acknowledge you as my junior apprentice, nor do I want to acknowledge you as a disciple of our Muga Nito-Ryu."
Ogata raised an eyebrow.
As for Mamiya and the other three, their expressions also changed slightly at this moment.
"You don't want to acknowledge me as your disciple of Muga Nito-Ryu ... Can you tell me the reason?" Ogata crossed his hands and put them into his sleeves on both sides.
"Because I think you're just a thief who stole our Kinoshita family's swordsmanship - what do you think of this reason?"
Hearing Lin's words, Ogata's face began to show displeasure.
"Ms. Kinoshita, what you just said was biased, wasn't it?"
"It was your great-uncle who gave me the secret manual of Wuga Nito-Ryu. I mastered Wuga Nito- Ryu with the secret manual given by your great-uncle. How can it be said to be stolen?"
"Besides, whether I am considered a disciple of your Muga Nito-ryu should not be decided by you, but by your great-uncle, right?"
"You are wrong." Lin's face was still icy, "I have the final say. Two years ago, my grandfather passed the throne to me, and now I am the second generation head of the Wuga Nito-ryu family."
"I think you are considered a disciple of our Muga Nito-Ryu, you are."
"I don't think you can be considered a disciple of our Muga Nito-Ryu, you just aren't."
"I think you have stolen the swordsmanship of our Kinoshita family. You are a thief."
Ogata's face was now filled with deep impatience.
"Ms. Lin...are you picking on me?"
"You're being over-concerned. I'm just stating a fact."
"In that case - Miss Lin, let me also state a fact."
Ogata changed his tone to a mocking one.
"My attainments in the two-sword style as a thief may even be better than those of you, the direct descendant of the orthodox lineage, right?"
Since Lin had always been unfriendly to Ogata, Ogata was no longer polite and no longer treated Lin well. She directly mocked her.
Mamiya and others who were kneeling on both sides now looked anxious.
Even a fool could sense that the atmosphere between Ogata and Lin had become tense.
"Asai-senpai..." Shimada whispered to Asai beside him, "What's wrong with the lord... Why is she so angry... She keeps saying very rude things to Lord Ogata..."
"How should I know?" Asai responded unhappily.
The other three Mamiyas racked their brains to think of ways to ease the tense atmosphere between Ogata and Lin.
But before they could come up with a solution, Lin frowned slightly after being mocked by Ogata.
Then——
"Then let me see your level."
"How do you want to see it?"
"Nothing can better demonstrate the level of swordsmanship than actual combat, right?"
"I see. Well, then - I will let you see it as you wish."
Ogata had no interest in being recognized by Lin as a disciple of Muga Nito-Ryu or being recognized by Lin as his junior fellow apprentice. These so-called "statuses" were not worth mentioning in Ogata's eyes.
The reason why he accepted the challenge was simply because he wanted to teach this guy a lesson who had been inexplicably hostile to him since just now.
Seeing that Ogata agreed, Lin nodded slightly, turned her head and said to Shimada below:
"Shimada."
"exist!"
"Go get three wooden swords. Two katana and one wakizashi."
"yes!"
…
…
Shimada moved quickly.
After a while, he came back with three knives as Lin instructed.
Ogata waved the wooden wakizashi in his left hand and the wooden katana in his right hand.
After confirming that there were no problems with the weight and center of gravity, Ogata looked at Shimada who had already assumed a mid-section .
Ogata thought that it was Lin who came out to fight him personally, but he didn't expect that it wasn't the case.
The opponent Lin picked for Ogata to fight was Shimada.
Lin was still kneeling under the Qiancheng gourd horse seal, while Mamiya and others stood far aside to leave enough space for Ogata and Shimada.
"So it wasn't you who was fighting with me?" Ogata asked Lin who was kneeling under the horse's seal while playing with the knife in his hand.
"A person who couldn't even defeat Lian Shenglilang is not worthy of me drawing my sword."
“I see… Then – Shimada, I’m on top.”
"Come on!" Shimada gripped the knife even tighter.
After clenching the two swords in his hands , Ogata took a deep breath and then slowly assumed the starting posture of the "Muga Two-Sword Style".
At the moment when he prepared the "Muga Nisō-ryu", Ogata also switched his breathing to "Original Breathing".
[Ding! Use "Original Breathing" to temporarily increase your reflexes by 2 points]
[Current reflex nerve value: 11 points]
Looking at Ogata's chest rising and falling in a rhythm that was so familiar to her, Lin fixed her eyes and whispered in a voice that only she could hear:
"It's really the Breath of the Origin... and... the level is not low..."
Looking at Shimada in front of him, who was in a very standard mid-section stance, Ogata suddenly thought:
——This seems to be the first battle I’ve fought since I was poisoned by the immortality poison…
The trauma and fatigue left on Butterfly Island have long been recovered.
After recovering from all his injuries and fatigue, Ogata finally felt clearly that the immortal poison in his body had indeed increased his physical functions.
It is not a temporary increase, but appears to be a permanent increase based on current conditions.
His strength, agility, reflexes and other abilities have really all been improved across the board.
Let's use this battle with Shimada to test the specific level of the body after being enhanced - just as this thought came into Ogata's mind, Shimada in front of him released a powerful Qiai and attacked Ogata.
Looking at the wooden sword blade coming towards him, Ogata frowned slightly.
Each of Shimada's attacks was full of momentum and power - it was a pity that each of his moves was either dodged by Ogata with a step or directly blocked with a blade counterattack.
While countering each of Shimada's moves one by one, Ogata's brows became deeper and deeper.
Bang!
After blocking Shimada's horizontal slash with his left hand, Ogata whispered to Shimada:
"You haven't learned any swordplay?"
Shimada's expression right now... is as if a lie he told was exposed.
After pushing away Ogata's sword and taking a few steps back to create some distance between them, he responded softly:
"...That's right. I didn't learn from any school."
After Shimada swung the first knife at him, Obara felt a strange feeling.
It was not until he dodged and took several of Shimada's moves in succession that Ogata finally determined what this strange feeling was about - every move Shimada made was an ordinary horizontal and vertical slash, not a sword technique from any school or faction.
To use the terminology of modern Earth, Shimada's situation is like this: he can only use basic attacks and cannot use any skills.
"It seems like you only know how to slash horizontally and vertically?" Ogata asked.
"Yeah." Shimada smiled bitterly, "After all, I haven't learned any sword techniques, so I don't know any sword skills, so I only know the two moves of horizontal slash and vertical chop."
Having said this, Shimada paused.
Then he said to Ogata in a firm tone:
"Although I don't know any sword skills, I am still very strong. Please don't underestimate me."
Shimada seemed to have mistakenly thought that Ogata's two questions were a mockery of his lack of swordsmanship.
After hearing what Shimada said, Ogata shook his head:
"I don't look down on you. Rather, I admire you."
"It's admirable that you can reach this level of strength without knowing swordsmanship."
Ogata's words were sincere and were not meant to flatter Shimada.
Although Shimada only knew horizontal slashing and vertical chopping, it could be seen that Shimada must have painstakingly practiced these two moves.
Whether it is strength, speed or accuracy, it is enough to amaze people.
When facing Shimada, an ordinary samurai might not be a match for this samurai who doesn't know any swordsmanship.
While dodging and parrying Shimada's attacks just now, Ogata was actually observing Shimada's strength.
And now - Ogata has a rough assessment of Shimada's strength: he is still no match for Ogata Yoshisuke.
After tightening the two wooden swords in his hands, Ogata took the initiative to rush towards Shimada!
Bang!
Ogata's wakizashi and Shimada's sword collided heavily.
The two swords collided heavily in mid-air and then separated in the next moment.
Ogata did not stop his offensive.
After the wakizashi was caught, he immediately swung the katana in his right hand and slashed at Shimada.
Ogata continued to swing his two swords alternately, launching an endless fierce attack on Shimada.
Shimada also tensed every nerve in his body, concentrating on defending against every attack from Ogata.
Because he was too focused, Shimada's breathing slowed down involuntarily.
Just as Shimada was concentrating on defending against every attack from Ogata...
“Hmm…!”
Shimada suddenly cried out in surprise.
Because he was fully focused on defending against Ogata's attack, Shimada didn't notice that Ogata had suddenly hooked his foot with his foot.
The move used by Ogata is a technique in Shiranui-ryu Jujutsu that is specifically designed to destroy the enemy's center of gravity - the foot hook.
The reason why he kept launching continuous slashes at Shimada was to make Shimada focus on defending against his slashes and ignore the protection of his lower body.
Because the stability of his lower body was destroyed by Ogata, Shimada's posture had a huge flaw due to the instability of his lower body.
Ogata, who had been waiting for this flaw for a long time, swung his katana towards Shimada's left shoulder without any hesitation.
After all, this was just a sparring match, not a life-and-death duel, so Ogata did not aim at Shimada's face, but at his left shoulder.
Even though his lower body was unstable, Shimada still gritted his teeth and swung the knife in his hand, intending to make a desperate effort to see if he could block Ogata's knife.
However, Shimada's final effort was doomed to be in vain - because Ogata was still holding a wakizashi in his left hand.
Ogata raised the wakizashi in his left hand to block the wooden sword that Shimada was trying to use to block his attack.
The last hope of defense was shattered, and Ogata's katana accurately hit Shimada's left shoulder.
Although Ogata tried to control his strength, no matter how much he controlled it, the person being chopped by the wooden sword would not feel any better.
The facial features on Shimada's face immediately twisted together in pain and he fell to the ground.
[Ding! Use the Wuwo Two Swords Style · Flow to defeat the enemy]
[Gain 80 personal experience points, 80 sword skills "Ninja Sword Style" experience points, 20 Shiranui Style Ninjutsu points]
[Current personal level: Lv24 (2610/3200)]
[Mutual Dual Blade Level: 8th Stage (1600/6500)]
[Shiranui Style Ninjutsu Level: 1st Stage (230/250)]
"You lose." Ogata pointed the tip of the wooden sword at the nose of Shimada who was slumped on the ground.
"Lord Ogata..." Shimada rubbed his left shoulder, which was still aching, "You are too cunning... You even stretched out your foot to hook my foot..."
"Katsurokuro!" Lin's voice suddenly rang out.
Lin's voice was filled with a hint of dissatisfaction.
“Don’t make excuses.”
"The reason you lost just now is simply because you haven't practiced enough."
"Forgetting to protect your lower body during a fight is evidence of insufficient training."
"Reflect on this carefully."
"yes……"
